Peter Joseph Dooling Association Ribbon Badge

Date

1917

Dimensions

3 1/4 x 1 1/4 x 1/8 in. (8.3 x 3.2 x 0.3 cm)

Accession Number

2010.065.000

Credit Line

Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

Object Details

Political clubs like the Peter J. Dooling Association worked hard to create an entire universe that embraced rallies, torchlight parades, picnics, music, poetry, literature, and entertainment. The Dooling Association was so successful that its events were accompanied by ribbons like this one, and were written up in the New York Times, which reported that one annual outing was a barge trip from Manhattan to College Point, where multiple baseball games were punctuated with “cold tea, circus lemonade, and frothy amber fluid.”